RED BANK, N. J., Aug. 20.Five new speed marks that will go on the books as
world records were registered in the opening series of mess today of the eighth
annual National Sweepstakes Regatta. Moreover, in a number of preliminary heats
that pave the way for final scoring tests tomorrow existing champions in Inboard
classes seemed likely to be replaced.

In the only feature that was completed this sunny afternoon, white-haired
Jack Cooper of Kansas City swept by the lanes of spectator yachts on the North
Shrewsbury to take two firsts slid a second in the three-heat 225 event for a
total of 1,100 points.

Cooper, last year's winner of this popular class, captured the first heat
with a speed of 61.983 and with a good many ripples of open water behind him. He
was boxed in a bunched start in the second heat and couldn't overtake George
Cannon's gray Sabot, driven by Hugh Gingras, whose speed was 62.717. The
third heat was the most daredevilish of all, as the fleet of these roaring water
beetles slammed and bounced through each other's wash and kept from capsizing on
the turns only by eyelash margins.

Cooper Saves Every Inch

Cooper hugged the inside lane, just grazing the turn buoys and almost
scraping the orange paint off them. His nearest rival, Gingras, closed in along
the straightaway but couldn't match Cooper's uncanny ability to take the turns
without cutting throttle. Cooper's phenomenal time of 4.42 2-5 brought him a new
225 world record of 63.739 miles an hour to supplant his own 63.202 made here a
year ago.

Only one of the three 135 cubic inch heats was scheduled today and this went
to a reformed outboard champion, Sammy Crooks of Rumson, N. J., who turned pro
after finishing his studies at Rutgers a few seasons back, His Dragon was
best of todays large field. The 1937 135 champion, S. Mortimer Auerbach of.
Atlantic City, did not defend.

The Atlantic City lawyer and former Assemblyman, Edison Hedges, not only won
today's first heat In the 91 class but set a new record for this category at
42.135 miles an hour.